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(Far Away Feeling) The Spell Of The Yukon
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Jim Reeves
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I wanted the gold and I sought it
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I scrabbled and mucked like a slave
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Was it famine or scurvy, I fought it
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I hurled my youth into a grave
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I wanted the gold and I got it
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Came out with a fortune last fall
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Yet somehow, life's not what I thought it
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And somehow the gold isn't all
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No, there's the land, have you seen it?
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It's the cursedest land that I know
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From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
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To the deep, deathlike valleys below
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Some say God was tired when He made it
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Some say it's a fine land to shun
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Maybe but there's some as would trade it
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For no land on earth and I'm one
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You come to get rich, damned good reason
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You feel like an exile at first
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You hate it like hell for a season
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And then you are worse than the worst
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It grips you like some kinds of sinning
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It twists you from foe to a friend
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It seems it's been since the beginning
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It seems it will be to the end
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I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
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That's plumb-full of hush to the brim
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I've watched the big, husky sun wallow
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In crimson and gold and grow dim
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Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming
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And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop
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And I've thought that I surely was dreaming
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With the peace o' the world piled on top
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The summer, no sweeter was ever
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The sunshiny woods all a thrill
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The gray ling a leap in the river
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The bighorn asleep on the hill
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The strong life that never knows harness
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The wilds where the caribou call
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The freshness, the freedom, the fairness
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O God how I'm stuck on it all
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The winter, the brightness that blinds you
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The white land locked tight as a drum
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The cold fear that follows and finds you
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The silence that bludgeons you dumb
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The snows that are older than history
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The woods where the weird shadows slant
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The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery
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I've bade 'em goodbye but I can't
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There's a land where the mountains are nameless
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And the rivers all run God knows where
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There are lives that are erring and aimless
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And deaths that just hang by a hair
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There are hardships that nobody reckons
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There are valleys unpeopled and still
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There's a land, oh, it beckons and beckons
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And I want to go back and I will
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They're making my money diminish
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I'm sick of the taste of champagne
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Thank God when I'm skinned to a finish
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I'll pike to the Yukon again
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I'll fight and you bet it's no sham-fight
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It's hell but I've been there before
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And it's better than this by a great site
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So me for the Yukon once more
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There's gold and it's haunting and haunting
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It's luring me on as of old
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Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
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So much as just finding the gold
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It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder
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It's the forests where silence has lease
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It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder
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It's the stillness that fills me with peace
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